On Tue Aug 20, 2024 at 12:17 AM BST, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > But users would love to have something like 'qt6-full-dev'. And the > reason we never provided them with this meta-package is that package > maintainers would use it almost everywhere, dragging the whole Qt > installation on each package depending on it... This is a _huge_ waste > of resources and buildd time (or is it not??)
I think it would be better to use social methods to prevent maintainers from doing this, rather than technical ones. > At one point I thought of adding a Lintian test checking for this kind > of usage, but first and foremost I would like to know if you think > this is a viable/acceptable idea, maybe even adding a special section > in our policy. I like the idea of a Lintian check, assuming Lintian accepts checks which don't correspond to Policy. I'm not sure it makes sense to try and encode this restriction in Policy itself. Best wishes, -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
